This is a great addition to this exciting sticker book series for boys. It is packed with scary zombies oozing swamp monsters ancient mummies as well as some guest appearances from famous spooky creatures such as Frankensteins monster & even Count Dracula himself. It comes with over 200 stickers to dress the spooky characters & scary extras from rats & bats to brains in jars. ...

This is a brand new set of cards containing simple spooky doodle activities to keep little children busy at Halloween & all year around. The cards are wipe clean & the pack

Includes:: a special pen with which to doodle on the cards making the pack entirely self-contained easily portable & a great gift. The cards are robust & durable ensuring repeated use.

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Overall Winner of the Red House Children's Book Award 2013. With a tantalizing storyline that dares the reader to explore a monstrous mansion this spooky new take on the classic Haunted House concept is completely engrossing. It is jam-packed with carefully designed pop-ups & on the final page there is a terrific twist that will only be revealed when the AMAZING heat-sensitive ink is warmed up! Perfect as a Halloween treat or for spooky thrills all year round! ...

Bong! Goes the bell in the rickety tower Twelve times...that means its Spooky Hour. Listen! Hush! Oooh whats that sound? The midnight spooks are coming round. The creepy countdown has begun so get ready to giggle at funny floaty ghosts clickety-clackety skeletons & terrific tromping trolls! A real rollicking romping rhyming story with hilarious illustrations
- perfect for every little monster!
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This title comes from one of Americas finest living writers Pete Dexter US National Book Award-winning author of Paris Trout". This is a riotous & dazzling comic story of resilience & love for fans of John Irving & Jonathan Franzen. Warren Spooner is born in rural Georgia on the first Sunday of December 1956 after a prolonged & unhappy labour in a makeshift delivery room. His troubled birth is swiftly followed by his fathers untimely death
- & young Spooner is left to get on with growing up without even a memory of his daddys face. Spooner makes it into minor league baseball but an injury to his throwing arm relegates him to the sidelines & dashes his hopes of making it to the big-time. But the young man is nothing if not resilient standing up to tragedy & adversity in his own dark (often extremely dark) ways. Through it all his step-father
- Calmer Ottoson
- stands by determinedly trying to save his step-son yet utterly powerless to do so. From Spooners troubled childhood to his troubled adolescence & violent & troubled adulthood Pete Dexter tells an entirely gripping story of one mans inexhaustible patience tested to the limits as he struggles to rescue a step-son he will never underst&."


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They say you can never truly love a child that is not your own but that goes against every instinct that runs through me. For I have loved children born to other women all my life & every child that I have ever cared for Ive adored with all my heart. Many I would have laid down my life for in fact on some memorable occasions when I fled to air raid shelters clutching my charges to my chest I very nearly did. In 62 years of being a nanny I have lost count of the number of children Ive cared for but it must be approaching 100. Which means I am inordinately proud to say that despite never having actually given birth I have 100 children. How many women can say that? Brenda is 91 years old & spent 62 years working as a Norland Nanny. Just like a real-life Mary Poppins Brenda devoted her life to giving children the best possible start in life. Brenda began training at the Norland Institute in 1939 at the age of 18 shortly before war was declared. It was a time of great upheaval & uncertainty particularly for children. Even as a nervous young trainee Brenda was determined to give the children in her care a wonderful childhood regardless of the horrors that were unravelling on the continent & when the blitz began on their doorsteps. Brenda worked poverty-stricken evacuees from the East End London as well as in the nurseries of smart Kensington homes. She frequently put her life at risk dashing to air raid shelters with her charges clutched to her chest. This is a story from a time when nothing was taken for granted & life itself was in peril on a near-daily basis. But the war was also a time when people pulled together like never before or since & it called upon Brenda to make sacrifices shed never imagined having to make... Warm funny & incredibly moving Brendas memoir brings to life the colourful world of wartime Engl&. ...

' They say you can never truly love a child that is not your own but that goes against every instinct that runs through me. For I have loved children born to other women all my life & every child that I have ever cared for I've adored with all my heart. Many I would have laid down my life for in fact on some memorable occasions when I fled to air raid shelters clutching my charges to my chest I very nearly did. In 62 years of being a nanny I have lost count of the number of children I've cared for but it must be approaching 100. Which means I am inordinately proud to say that despite never having actually given birth I have 100 children. How many women can say that?' Brenda is 91 years old & spent 62 years working as a Norland Nanny. Just like a real-life Mary Poppins Brenda devoted her life to giving children the best possible start in life. Brenda began training at the Norland Institute in 1939 at the age of 18 shortly before war was declared. It was a time of great upheaval & uncertainty particularly for children. Even as a nervous young trainee Brenda was determined to give the children in her care a wonderful childhood regardless of the horrors that were unravelling on the continent & when the blitz began on their doorsteps. Brenda worked poverty-stricken evacuees from the East End London as well as in the nurseries of smart Kensington homes. She frequently put her life at risk dashing to air raid shelters with her charges clutched to her chest. This is a story from a time when nothing was taken for granted & life itself was in peril on a near-daily basis. But the war was also a time when people pulled together like never before or since & it called upon Brenda to make sacrifices she'd never imagined having to make... Warm funny & incredibly moving Brenda's memoir brings to life the colourful world of wartime Engl&. ...

Touring Paris & provincial France in a handsome borrowed car Philip Dean Yale dropout has an affair with a young French woman named Anne-Marie. Their liaison is imagined with candour & sensitivity by an unnamed narrator whose fantasies become compellingly & hauntingly real. A Sport & A Pastime has been hailed as a watershed in American fiction of the 1960s: remarkable for its eroticism its luminous prose & its ability to blur the boundaries of reality & dreamlife daytime & nightime soul & flesh. 'A tour de force in erotic realism a romantic cliffhanger an opaline vision of Americans in France' New York Times ' Salter is the contemporary writer most admired & envied by other writers.. .he can when he wants break your heart with a sentence' Washington Post ...

This is a comprehensive & accessible text on exercise & sport psychology for students on sport science/sport & exercise science degrees. It adopts an integrated thematic approach & covers all the required theory concepts & research accompanied by case studies to illustrate the applied nature of the material being covered. The book is split into two major sections covering exercise psychology & sport psychology & each chapter supports students as they progress from clear introductory material to more advanced discussions. ...

This is the rock climbing instructional book. Until now instructional books for climbers have taken a largely negative approach concentrating on how to reduce the inherent risks of the sport & mentioning only in passing the equally important skills required to get to the top. This book represents a watershed in the genre coming from a coaching perspective. Sport Climbing+" is packed with inspirational photos humorous illustrations & two lifetimes worth of learning how to succeed at the toughest of all sports. The book takes a practical approach focussing on the improvements that climbers can make immediately without embarking on lengthy training programs. Written in a highly accessible jargon-free style this book is as beneficial to the novice indoor climber wanting to get on rock as it is to the experienced climber wanting to move onto the next level." ...